I’ve mostly gone back to reading sci-fi nowadays. I suspect this is because sci-fi is about competent people, whereas literary fiction is about neurotic people.
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To be clear, I think the optimal reading strategy is a mix of both; neurotic, self-aware people can capture subtle things on the page that sci-fi writers can’t, and vice versa.
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So most normies should read more sci-fi, and most nerds should read more literary fiction. At the margin.
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That said, I think accelerating technological progress & a need for more intentional thinking about the future means that sci-fi’s “objective value” has increased. The best sci-fi gives you a visceral sense of what the consequences of tech will be, long-term.
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